Comment on Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad?

commander@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• TeddE@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Seems difficult to build it as a social media if it’s inherently unsocial.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Who said YOU could say words???

    revokes your right to comment

    We’ll be having none of that interaction, and social stuff here!!!

    …why isn’t peertube taking off???

    (/joke)

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  • Kichae@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s not unsocial. It’s just not mirroring multi-gigabyte files by default. It’s perfectly social if you use the website.

    Everyone has to stop conflating the technology with the network. Lemmy is a website engine. PeerTube is a website engine. The ability to mirror content is not inherent to running a Lemmy- or PeerTube-based website. The network is not the primary object here.

    It is a construct that arrises from content-mirroring.

    Remember, federation is copying, not creating some kind of remote view. If you’re federating videos, you’re letting other websites consume terabytes of your storage space amd bandwidth.

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    • meldrik@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Remember, federation is *copying*, not creating some kind of remote view. If you’re federating videos, you’re letting other websites consume terabytes of your storage space amd bandwidth.

      That is not true, at all.

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      • Kichae@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It’s literally what federation is.

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    • commander@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Remember, federation is copying, not creating some kind of remote view.

      Is this true? It’s my understanding that, lemmy for example, has the protocol in place for servers to communicate their content with each other, but each server’s content is hosted separately.

      Are you saying all federated services copy each other’s data instead of only linking to it?

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      • Ludrol@szmer.info ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Images* are linked, text is copied

        See: szmer.info/post/5936505 lemmy.world/post/25244041

        *thumbnails are also copied

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• CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That seems… like a poor choice.

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  • derpgon@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We use it in our company because we don’t want to upload videos only we use to Google.

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    • lud@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      So it’s more useful as a video player than a YouTube replacement?

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      • derpgon@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Well, it is used mainly to share videos so we don’t have to send them or save them directly to file server. I’d say it has many of the features YT has, so I would say it is possible to replace YT with it, but the problem with videos - as opposed to images or text - is that they take fuckton of space.

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• meldrik@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yes and no.

  By default anyone can follow your instance.

  If you want your instance to follow others, you either have to type them in manually or use “auto-follow”, which needs to be enabled manually.

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